Friday, May 18, 2012

Monday Bill stopped by to get our check list of items that
need to be finished and tweaked for the coming week and will be back tomorrow
to work.He is now backed up with jobs
coming in and those needing to get finished.This is a good thing to have jobs lined up in a slow economy.

Tuesday Bill cut and installed the shelves for the pantry
cabinet, attached the kitchen island to the floor.Not much to do until Tom comes tomorrow and
they work on the cabinets.

Wednesday Fritz came to install the under-counter lighting
for the kitchen cabinets.He had never
installed this type of LED lighting before but liked the final outcome.He also installed the new light for the guest
bathroom upstairs and the new fluorescent lights for the garage.When he removed the light that we had turned
off because it flickered all the time, he found the box was burnt and if we had
continued to use it, it would have caused an electrical fire.

Tom began trimming the backside of the cabinet for the
kitchen vent hood and installing the remaining crown molding for the
cabinets.Tom is about to return to
Alaska to fish so he was anxious to finish up this job.Tom is all about the little details and
making sure everything is perfect or he will work on it until he makes it perfect.This is the type of person you want doing the
finish work.

Thursday Bill installed the closet doors and fixed the
wobbly, thrown together, makeshift, haphazard shelves that the previous owner
put in the master bathroom.The new
shelves have cleats nailed to the wall to sit on.

I installed the new handles on all the closet doors except
two because counting is not a strong point for my brain and I counted once,
twice and thought okay, but I was still short two.Oh well it will just be another stop at
Lowe’s tomorrow.The trips were getting
less frequent but have increased this past week for little things.Note to self:install the hardware on bi-fold doors before having them installed
because otherwise you must squeeze in between the door and the shelves or
clothing to get to the backside when the screws go in the doors.

Friday I had a scrapbook class with Grads so I was out of
the house while the crew worked on.Before I returned, Larry had the guys clear the house of all the tools,
trim, the extra paraphernalia, and, even the porch had been cleared of almost
everything that had been stored there.No saws, sawhorses, buckets, or boxes.

The hardware had been installed on the cabinets and they
look amazing.Just waiting to order two
knobs for the glass hutch cabinet doors and they will be done.

Larry went to the store while I was gone and bought a card
for me to celebrate our new kitchen, and flowers, and a bottle of my favorite
champagne, Mumm Napa.

I have a history with Mumm Napa--The short version:In 1998 my son Jim and his friend Jennifer
took me to dinner.My sister Mary came
over earlier that day with a fur coat and diamonds for my ears, neck, and
wrist.I had already bought a new slinky
grey floor length dress to wear and on that day Larry sent two dozen yellow
roses.Larry and I met online through my
sister and his sister-in-law and we hadn’t yet met in person, and no one had
ever sent me roses before.After dinner
Jim begged off the private art gallery opening at Mumm Napa and Jennifer and I
went alone.When we arrived Jim was in
the parking lot waiting for us as a surprise.He took a short cut.My everyday
work wear, as an elementary physical education aide, was t-shirts, shorts, and
tennis shoes with a whistle and stopwatch around my neck and a fanny pack to
hold emergency first aid supplies.This
was a very special night to remember for so many reasons--and why Mumm Napa
became my favorite winery.

Wish I could still fit in that size six dress and wear it
when we pop open the bottle of champagne.Maybe my sister would send me the fur coat and diamonds to celebrate.

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Married to Larry and we have five kids, a son-in-law, a daughter-in-law, two grandsons, one granddaughter, and a neighborhood cat. I focus on creating art and/or teaching mixed media, paintings, shabby chic decor, paper-making, watercolors, and mosaics.
My art has sold in several states, the internet, and in my own shop.